live blogging the giants redskins

plaxico, wide open!!! look at what plax can do with orthotics!!! nice pass, eli. 5 yards a carry last year. yes!!! brandon. second straight play where marcus washington trying to get up in jacobs's grill. already an asshole, marcus!!!

live blogging the giants redskins

i say giants 31-13. i say the giants run for 150+ yards and eli plays well; not great, but well. and i say cooley catches 7 passes for lots of yards. ahmad bradshaw with a lame return. jacobs a bit too tippy-toes approaching the line. show me that pass again. was it eli aiming at the feet??? or jacobs not reaching??? first down, steve smith. yes. he will be so good this year, a black possession receiver, an nfl breakthrough, yes!!! turn it upfield, brandon!!! quicker, quicker!!!

live blogging the giants-redskins

Madden: to win the redskins have to run the ball. just like every football game since the beginning of football. and rush the passer. and score more points. jeesh!!!

Live-blogging the Giants-Redskins

Harry Carson, David Tyree, the catch, eli to plax, what a start!!! spike lee, strahan, the lomarddi trphy...stomp somebody out - what an opening!!! michaels and madden are dressed like limo drivers. madden has the biggest head outside of a yellowstone trophy room.

Live-blogging the Giants-Redskins

Blue politically, Blue Ridge Mountains, and yes, Giant Blue. I have been a New York Football Giants fan since the great Allie Sherman coached teams of the early 1960s - Tittle, Del Shofner, Rosey Brown, Sam Huff, Lynch, Patton, Joe Morrison running to Morrison's corner before kick-off and through the 1-12-1, 2-10-2 years. The Tarkenton years when every other moron in the stands called him Tarkington. The Yale Bowl, Shea Stadium, the Meadowlands... and then finally, LT (only someone who doesn't know ANY football history calls Ladainian Tomlinson LT), Lawrence Taylor, the single greatest defensive force on a football field that I have ever seen. Phil Simms, 22-25, 39-20!!! And the Scott Norwood, wide right from 47 and Parcells knew that 47 was his limit. The aberration against the Ravens. And then last year - the greatest road string ever. Eli Manning, the Kid from Deliverance for most of his career, becomes a Super Bowl MVP and Champion. Strahan, HOF. Jerry Reese, the greatest draft since the Steelers getting all those HOFers years back. What was he, 7 for 7, all contributing to the Super Bowl win??? And now tonight, game 1 of the 2008 NFL season, Giants vs. the hated Redskins, a team somehow still allowed to use a racially insensitive name. They should go 0-16 just for that. But 0-1 will be fine after tonight. The Giants lost Osi, which Eli shows up, can the Skins learn Zorn's offense, can they play defense (they gave up 70+ points in their last 2 pre-season) and can the Giants cover/guard Chris Cooley who always seems to be open in space? Soon, soon...

this just in:

even more foreign policy experience for sarah palin - she graduated from the university of idaho... in MOSCOW, IDAHO. surely attending school in Moscow qualifies as foreign policy experience.

Been a long Time

What to say - fixed the house in North Hollywood with incredible help from Gordon McKee and Craig Spivek. Lived in two rooms for 9 months - the kitchen and the master bedroom - while the house was on the market. Finally sold it. Thrilled to have done so rather than watch it lose value month by month. Thank you Republican induced mortgage lending crisis. Moved to Ashevillle, North Carolina. Found a great house. Escrow, easy with best r.e. agent, Vivien Snyder. Moved in 7/11, very auspicious, very lucky. Happy to be here. And now in the midst of two scripts, a book of poems (an alphabestiary homage to Ogden Nash) and invested totally in the Obama campaign and the direction this country will take in the next 4-8-? years. Much more to come re: Asheville, the election, the arts, movies, new friends, music, and the New York Football Giants. Stay tuned.